SHILLONG: The rise in the number of cancer cases in Meghalaya with a total of 2620 reported cases during the last five years is a matter of concern for the State Government, said Meghalaya Health Minister Rowell Lyngdoh. The disease in on the rise and the State Government has taken up various health programmes to control the disease.

Talking to reporters, Lyngdoh said that the statistics available with the Health Department recorded that in 2006, the reported cases of cancer was only 303. In 2007, the number of people affected with the disease went up to 457 and in 2008, it was 464. In 2009,